{"id":44,"date":"2005-08-22T12:19:28","date_gmt":"2005-08-22T16:19:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/2005\/08\/22\/pittsburgh-police-use-taser-on-count"},"modified":"2006-09-11T16:40:54","modified_gmt":"2006-09-11T20:40:54","slug":"pittsburgh-police-use-taser-on-counter-recruitment-demonstrators","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/2005\/08\/22\/pittsburgh-police-use-taser-on-counter-recruitment-demonstrators\/","title":{"rendered":"Pittsburgh Police use Taser on Counter Recruitment Demonstrators"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name=\"a121\"><\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/media.indypgh.org\/uploads\/2005\/08\/imgp2958.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"480\" height=\"536\" border=\"0\" alt=\"taser\" src=\"http:\/\/media-cyber.law.harvard.edu\/blogs\/static\/fensterm\/taser.jpg\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nCourtesy Pittsburgh Indy Media<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: left\"><font size=\"4\">Pittsburgh Police used tasers against counter recruitment demonstrators on Saturday. Two demonstrators were hospitalized.<\/p>\n<p><\/font><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: left\"><font size=\"4\">According ot the <a href=\"http:\/\/pittsburghlive.com\/x\/tribune-review\/s_366143.html\">Pittsburgh Tribune-Review<\/a>:<br \/>\n<\/font><\/div>\n<p><font size=\"4\"><br \/>\n<\/font><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: left\"><font size=\"4\">         Protestors De&#8217;Anna Caligiuri, 23, of Bloomfield and Justin Krane, 31,<br \/>\nof Mt. Washington, were shot with electrically-charged Taser stun darts<br \/>\nduring the melee. Caligiuri kicked at police who tried to arrest her, and<br \/>\nKrane shoved a construction fence on officers, according to police.<\/p>\n<p>Demonstrators posting in <a href=\"http:\/\/pittsburgh.indymedia.org\/news\/2005\/08\/19784.php\">Pittsburgh Indy Media<\/a> claim that the demonstrators were already subdued and on the ground when the police fired their tasers. They have <a href=\"http:\/\/media.indypgh.org\/uploads\/2005\/08\/taser1_edit.mov\">video<\/a> to prove it.<\/p>\n<p>As far as I know, the conduct of Cambridge Police during the <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/2005\/06\/15#a71\">June 14, 2005 celebration of the Army&#8217;s 300th Birthday<\/a> is still in question.<\/p>\n<p><\/font><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\"><font size=\"4\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" border=\"0\" alt=\"1_arrest3: 1_arrest31_arrest31_arrest3\" src=\"http:\/\/media-cyber.law.harvard.edu\/blogs\/static\/fensterm\/1arrest3.jpg\" \/><\/font><br \/>\n<font size=\"4\">Courtesy jonny rebellious\/Boston Independent Media<\/p>\n<p><\/font> <font size=\"4\"> <\/font><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: left\"><font size=\"4\"><font size=\"4\"> <\/font> However, the claim by Mayor Michael Sullivan that it was not a recruiting event are clearly false:<\/p>\n<p><\/font><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\"><font size=\"4\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/media-cyber.law.harvard.edu\/blogs\/static\/fensterm\/wall1.jpg\" \/>&#8220;&gt;<\/font><\/div>\n<p><font size=\"4\"><br \/>\nThere&#8217;s bad moon on the rise.<br \/>\n<\/font><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy Pittsburgh Indy Media Pittsburgh Police used tasers against counter recruitment demonstrators on Saturday. Two demonstrators were hospitalized. According ot the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review: Protestors De&#8217;Anna Caligiuri, 23, of Bloomfield and Justin Krane, 31, of Mt. Washington, were shot with electrically-charged Taser stun darts during the melee. Caligiuri kicked at police who tried to arrest her, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":168,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[776],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sand-oil-and-tears"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/168"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}